Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-02
THE OUTLOOK.


And neglect, when our strength Is no more.
N g. Thompson, in Field, Farm and StocsBali.
THE OUTLOOK.
tits as yet early to commence making
estimates upon the grain and fruit products
for the season, but from the present out
look it may be said that the prospect for
prosperous year, and one of extreme plenty,
was never better. The acreage of grain is
large, and its growth and color indicate as
favorably for large crop as the most ava
ricious grower could possibly wish. The
fruit crop, judging from the prolific bios
soming and setting, will be the largest by
far-on account of increased acreage-that
has ever been seen in the State. This much
said, it must be always remembered that
no crop is certain until it is matured, and
it is in nature as with men" the best-laid
schemes gang aft aglee."
If prolific fruit yield should be had
this season, it would do more to settle the
question of marketing our fruits than
anything else thus far. 1t would probably
far exceed in volume both the market at
present opened up for our fruits at the
East, and also the facilities for handling
them. A bringing up on beam end "
of this class, in the fruit business,
would unite growers in common course
and positive determination, for the conser-
walton of their interests, and conclusiyely
bar all opportunities for foreign agents or
other untoward influences, to bind and
loose our growers as they saw proper for
their own ends and profit. 1t is possible
that the fruit marketing of the present sea-
son may not be successfully conducted, but
the experiences of each year will add to-
the store of information upon the subject,
and eventually there will be found a mar
ket for all our good fruit, and at remun-
nerative prices. Eventually the business
of fruit shipping and marketing will be-
come so settled and matured that trains
will be run by the transportation COM
panies, without contract as to full trains
or the number of cars to be furnished, but
il will be known that trains will go on
regular days and schedule time, and any
grower or shipper, who desires to send
a carload to any destination he may name,
will be able to do so, the same as any other
merchandise. When this time arrives
there will be no over-production, no lack
of market for whatever amount of first
class fruit is grown, and no opportunity
for foreign dealers TO fix and maintain so
high price upon our fruits at the East as
to confine their sale and consumption to
wealthy few, and leave three-fourths of the
years production to rot beneath he trees.
Numerous buyers and easy facilities for
shipping, and at as low rate as can be pro-
cured, are the prime essentials for success
in fruit-growing and marketing, and for
the prosperity of the State.
VALUE OF WATER FOR MICH COWS.
Observing dairymen have noticed that
the quantity of milk a COW yields depends
very much on the quantity of water she
drinks. Almost invariably a good mixer
is free drinker. NJ. Doncel reported to
the French Academy of Science that he
found by series of experiments that the
quantity of water habitually drank by
each cow during a hours, was criterion
to Judge of the quantity of milk that she
would yield per day. And COW that does
not drink as much as q quarts of water
daily must be a poor mixer, giving only
from 81 TO { quarts per day. But all the
COWS which consumed as much as 30 quarts
of water daily were excellent mixers, Civ
ing from Is to % quarts of milk per day.
He gives a confident opinion that the guam
tity of water drank by COW is an import
ant factor of her value as mixer.
Professor Horsfall found that COW Civ
ing only 20 pounds of milk day drank 40
pounds more of water than fattening cattle
of the same weight. Here is clue to the
excellent effect noticed by those who have
warmed the water for their cows. The COWS
very naturally drank nearly the usual
quantity, and the result, as John Boyd re-
ported, was an increase OF % per cent.
more milk of equally good quality
Hoard's Dqirymell.
A PEAcH-eRowERs STRIKE.
The following item from the New York
Star. lust at hand, indicates that California
fruit-growers are not the only ones who
have troubles to endure. The Star says:
a lively meeting Of commission mer-
chants was held yesterday morning in West
Washington market. The topic up for dis
cussion was, Will peach growers boycott
New York the coming season ?'
Francis McMulkin, who was chief speak
er, said " The peach-growers threaten to
boycott this market because 300 grocers and
ourselves have determined that we will not
handle peaches unless they are shipped in
free baskets. They viii have fine time boy
cotting, when this is the principal market
for peaches in this country. This is peach
year, and the Delaware growers alone ex-
pect to handle 100000 baskets, New
Jersey 6,000,0 600 baskets, and from up the
river will arrive fully 100000 bas-
kets-a total of 100000 baskets,
100000 baskets of witch will be sold
in and around this city The free baskets
viii sell twice as many peaches as ever be-
fore, and besides save the commission
dealers and groeers weeks of time and
thousands of dollars in book-keepers' fees.
When peaches are cheap-as they will be
this year, selling at from 50 to so cents q
basket-the sale of them is killed by the
castiron deposit system, which holds
both grocer and commission man in its
grip of 10 cents basket Poultry is sent
to market in free barrels and boxes, and
why not peaches? The growers are grum-
bling about the cost of baskets, and say
thew will cost them from 6 to 10 cents
each. We will furnish them as many as
thew want for cents apiece. These grow
ers stand in their own light when they
threaten to boycott this city, and they will
find when the season IS over that by the free
basket system We viii have made for them